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Olivia vs Oliviaann

American parents have registered 568,136 Olivias since 1880, against 37 Oliviaanns. Olivia is still ahead, with 13,554 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Olivia against Oliviaann, 1880 to 2025 0 5k 10k 15k 20k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Olivia Oliviaann

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Olivia has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2022, when Olivia had 16,686 and Oliviaann had 8.

Side by side

  Olivia Oliviaann
Total US births 568,13637
Most in one year 19,8638
Babies in 2025 13,554under 5
Estimated living today 543,00040
Median age today 154
Peak year 20142022
Best rank 2nd girls11,231st girls
Rank in 2025 1stunranked
First recorded 18802012
Girls / boys 567,345 / 79137 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Olivias alive today are over 15; half the Oliviaanns are over 4. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Olivia and Oliviaann.